problems with Win 7 and XP dual boot

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I have an up-to-date win 7 system with Symantec 360 installed. I configured and installed and XP version in an empty partition. When I rebooted the XP came up. I them opened easybcd 2.02 and went through the steps as indicated to reinstall the Win 7 boot loader. When I looked at the overview win 7 was there. I then did the steps to install the XP boot loader using "Add new Entry" selected Win NT/xp..." and hit "Add Entry" I changed no default settings except the "AddnewNetry". I got the following error "Could not allocate required space on registry log". I then patch the XP system to current patch level and tried again, same error. When I looked at the overview only win 7 was there. When I rebooted it came up in Win 7. I then tried to run easybcd in win 7. I repeated the process to install the xp boot loader as above. It looked like it work OK but when I looked at the overview it was not there.

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Thanks for the note. I tryed everything I could as directed in the forms mentioned above, including removing AV from the system. No luck I could not get it to work. Since I have 2 disk I will build win 7 on one and XP on theother and just swicht them.

thanks again, if you uncover something that might fix it for me please let me know.

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Did you do the EasyBCD "reset BCD" and then 3 iterations of "startup repair" from the W7 DVD ?

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